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Nostalgia for a Foreign Land

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This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of 1990s or later, and whose largest part of the works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nek...
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  • Publication Date: 10 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9781618115287
  • Pages: 310
  • Imprint: Academic Studies Press
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This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and active authors on the Israeli scene, in the printed and electronic media, and some of them are also editors of the renowned journals and authors of literary and cultural reviews and essays. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and new Israelis.
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Price: $109.00
Pages: 310
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Publication Date: 10 October 2016
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781618115287
Format: Hardcover
"When over a million Russians came to Israel between 1990 and 2010, they brought with them brains and brawn, violins and vodka, and the Russian language. But what could be more 'Trayf' in Israel then the Russian language? Isn't Russian in Israel a kind of Golden Calf, i.e. a manifestation of the psychological sediment formed from generations educated 'Their' way? And yet the Russian Jewish writers who 'repatriated' to Israel used Russian to give life to a 'metaphysical' literature, as Roman Katsman calls it. It is a literature that rejects the surface and speaks an inner language of transcendence and alienation. It is a Jewish literature that gives voice to an ephemeral moment--the Jew who lives in Hebrew, but whose origins in Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky provide a key to home anywhere and everywhere."
— Brian Horowitz, Professor of Russian and Chair of Jewish Studies, Tulane University
Roman Katsman is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Bar-Ilan University. He is author of six books and numerous articles on Hebrew and Russian literatures, and Jewish-Russian literature and thought. His recent interests are concerned with laughter in S.Y. Agnon’s works and the contemporary Russian intellectual literature.
Preface

Dina Rubina: A Portrait of the Artist as a Messiah and a Pirate

Introduction

Carnival and Sincerity

Migration and Neoindigeneity

Messiahs, Mothers, and Orphans

Victims and Heroes

From Trauma to the Real

Origins and Copies

Fugitives, Nomads, and Pirates

The Metaphysical Leap

Nekod Singer in Russian and Hebrew: Neoeclecticism and Beyond

A Noble Man of Our Times

The Jerusalem Trilogy of Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis

Ierusalimsky dvorianin (A noble man of Jerusalem, 1997): An Abortive Gesture of Violence

I/e_rus.olim (2004): History, Sacrifice, and Network

ЗЫ (Preemptive Revenge, 2006): The Other’s Heroism

Mikhail Yudson’s Lestnitsa na shkaf (The ladder to the cabinet): The New Language of Metaphysics

A Ladder to the Neoindigeneity

Afterword

Works Cited